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System Precision/Imprecision

March 2010

Remember this exercise? If we convert the pairs of values to the log scale, we can see that what seemed to make intuitive sense is supported by the log numbers: If these were viral loads, and we used the 0.5 log interval as a marker of significant change, then we can see that 10 is different than 100, but 500,000 and 500,090 are essentially indistinguishable.